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ontinental merchant, whose evidence will be tr rand to contain a variety of. valuable information. That Gentleman states, that the exchange cannot fall in any country in Europe at the present time, if computed in coin of a definitive value, or in some thing convertible into such coin, lower than the ex tent of the charge of transporting it, together with an adequate profit in proportion to the risk attend ing such transmission. He conceives, that such tail of our;exchange as has exceeded. that , extent in the last 15 months, must certainly, be referred to the circumstance of our paper currency not being com a ectible into specie ; and that it that paper had been so convertible, and guineas had been in general cir culation, an unfavourable balance of trade could hardly liae caused so great a.fall in the exchange as to the extent of sor 6 per cent. He explains , his opinion upon the subjea more specifically in the follOwing . ,answers, hicb are extracted from dif ferent parts of his evidence. ' " To what causes do,you ascribe the preSent un.-. favourable course of exchange ? The first great•de preciation took place when the French got posses sion of the North of Germany, and passed severe penal dectees against a communication with this country; at the. Same time that a sequestration was laid upon all English goods and,propetty, whilst the payments for English account were still • to .be made, and the. reimbursements to be taken on this courdry ; many mote bills mere in conse quence to be sold than could be taken • by per sons requiting to make payments in England. The comMuoic rion by letters being also very_ difficult and uncertain, middle men were not to be found, as in usual times, to purchase and send such bills to England for returns; whilst no suit at law could be insi!uted in the Courts of JustiCe there against any person who chose to - resist payment of a 'returned bill, or to dispule the charges of re"-exchange. "Whilst those causes depressed the exchange, pay-. ments due to England only came round at distant periods; the exchange once lowered by those cir cumstances, and bulliodbeing withheld in England to make up those occasional differences, the opera tions between this country ar.d the Continent have continued .at :a low rate, as it is only . matter of opi nion what - rate a pound sterling is there' to be %,a= lued at, not being able to obtain what it is, meant to .represent." The exchange against England Ilualuating from to 20 per cent. how much of that loss may be• as cribed. to the etfeCt of the Measures taken by the enemy in the North of Germany, and the interrup tion of intercourse which has been the result, and bow much to the erred of the Bank of England piper not being convertible into cash, to which you have ascribed a part of that depreciation ascribe the whole of the depreciation to have taken place originally, in consequence of the measures. Of the enemy, and its not having recovered, to the circum stance of the paper of England not being exchange.. able for cash.", [To be continued.] MAI LS. AR Atv ED-1 lldblin, t Waterford. Du z—l Cadiz, t Wa- ter ford. !PRICE OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT T%VZLV& O'CLOCK. ' Consols _ . • 6S ii Omnium THE SUN. SOLENT QUIS DICERE FAI.SUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1810. The following most extraordinary pnd unexpeeted Decree, said to have been issued by BUONAPARTE, was brought over by a vessel which arrived yester day from France. We call it ektraordinary, because it is a complete renunciation of the principles upon which he.has - for some time aCted,_ and an unequi vocal acknowledgment that they were in their effe& much .more injurious to France than they were to Great Britain. IMPERIAL DECREE. "' NAPOLEON, &C. " After having attended to the Report of our Council for the Administration of Finances, founded on the general sys ' tem ; anti also to the Report of our Minister of the Interior, we have decreed, and do decree as follows : a' - .114:`. Duties on Wares and Merchandizes hereafter named, are determined to ,be according to the subsequent rates ; that is to say— " Acayow Wood, co franks—Campeche do. So P.—Per . nainbuco do. 121 f. —Wood of wet dye, zoo f.—Brazil, Cay enne, Surinam, Demerary, and Georgia Cotton, of long sta. pie, Soo f.— Levant Cotton, by sea, 6o° f.—Ditto, by land, goo.f.,—Cotton of every other country, Naples excepted, boo f.—Coffee, 400 t.--Cocoa, woo f.—Cochineal. zoo() f.— Cloves, 60..) t.—lndigo, gz o f.—Sugar, zOOO t.—Black Pep. per, 400 f.—White do. 600 I.—Brown Sugar, 300 f.—Clayed Sugar. 400 f.-14-Vson Tea, goo f.—G reen Tea, 600 f.—All other Teas, rso f. " NAPOLEON, A:c. .‘ Executed at our Chamber of Commerce, this sth August, £8 o." , It is stated in Letters, both from Antwerp and Ostend, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees are to be rescinded altogether; according to one account on the Ist Oaober, and according to another on the Ist November. But the information before us is too vague to enable us to speak with any degree of pre cision upon the subjeet. We are not inclined to think that BUONAPARTE will aetually - go the length of wholly repealing these Decress, though he may have thought it necessary, to answer some 'tempo rary purpose, to relax them to a considerable degee. It is said, in some of the Letters- froin Paris, that this Decree, for permitting the• importation. of the, enumerated articles, was to have a retrospective ope ration, and that the sequestration's upon many Ariteri 'can tips had been Eaten off, on the condtion of the proprietors 'conforming to the regulatons •of the above Decree. We are, howevei, -very much' inclined to doubt this part of the Repot . ; 6e ,cause 'we knoiv, that, by a Special Decree, the American shipS and goods that were, under seques tration •were ordered Ape sold early last nonth ; and; from the proverbial rapidity of French pro-• ceedings, wren any thing in the shape of plun der is to be obtained, we are convinced that there are very few Americans in a condilioil to take advantage of this Decree,. even if it bears the extended consttuaict alluded .to. From the very high rate of duty which be has impos ed upon the • articles which he permits to •be im ported, there is every ground. to believe that his object in permitting this relaxation, is tnerely to re cruit his coffers, which he has not been recently able to replenish by any continental plunder. The KING came to town yesterday, as usual, about twelve o'clock, escorted by a party of Light 'Horse, from Windsor. He was received at the Queen's Palace by the Dukes of YoR.X - and KENT. •At_ two o'clock his MAJESTY held a' Private Le vee, which was attended by The Archbishop of Canterbury, 'the First Lord of the Treasury and .Chancellor of the Lxchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master General of the Ordnance, the three. S.:cretaries of State, the President e.f the _Boar I of Controul, the Commander in Chief, the Judge Advocate, the Portuguese A inbassador, the Secretary of Legation from Portugal ; Earls 1 - liirrowby and Galloway ; Viscount C het •wynd ; Lords •G: , rdner, Arden (in Wailing), Hearlifield, (Gold Stick); Sir S. Cotterell ; Admirals Morosoin, Fenner, Curxon, (Away. Stirling, •and bir F. Laturey ; Generals Cuppage, Sir 1). Baird. Sir T. Blemefield ., and Finch (Growl in Waiting) Colon:! Koss, and Captain Martin. The following had the honow of being presented to the KING :-- - • Rear Admiral Aluorsom, on his promotion._ _ Cohniel Ross of the zoth Regiment of Foot, on. his being appointed Aid•de•CJml? to the King, and on his. promotion. _ . Captain Martin, on his appointment tq the Royal Sove reign yacht. The Earl of .Galloway, on his promotion. R. C. Gnerreiro, Secretary to the Legation of Portugal, by the Portuguese Antbassador, and connucted by Sir Stephen Cotterell, the Master of the Ceieinonios. Major General Cuppage, on his promotion. Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner, on his appointment to the Chief command at Yarmouth. It ear Admiral Fernor, on his promotion. Rear Admiral Curzon, un being appointed a Rear Admiral 1 of the Blue. Vice Admiral Stirling, on his promotion. Rear Adiniral Sir Francis Latorey, on his promotion and appointment to command at Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. - Rear Admiral Otway, on his appointment as Commander .in Chief at Leith. Lieutenant General Sir David Baird, Bart. K.B. and C. on his marriage. Lieeutenant Genera; Sir Thomas Blomefield, Bart. on his promotion. His MAJESTY held a Privy. Council, and gave audiences to the Marquis WELLESLEY, Earls Liv ER. POOL and BATHURST, Lord MULGRAVE, Sir D. DUNDAS, MOWN. PERCEVAL, YORKE, RyDER, and M. SUTTON. The latter laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of some Courts Martial. By.a vessel which arrived yesterday from the coast of Spain, advice has been received of the defeat of a French corps stationed in Castropol, by the troops under the command of General PORLIER. It appears by-the American Papers, that the re ception which Mr. JACKSON, our late Minister to America, met with at Boston, was distinguished for its politeness. By a vessel, the Captain of which arrived in town last night, letters have been received from the Car raccas of so late a date as the 4th July. At that time the Creoles had the complete possession of the government of that provinCe, which they had de dared independent. The other four provinces of Spanish America had declared against the province of Caraccas. Great preparations were then making by buth parties, and there was every appearance of the most serious civil commotion and sanguinary conten tion very shortly taking place. The Island:of Anholt, in the Baltic, which has been for some' time in, our posses4ion, is to be strengthened by every possible means, so as to be capable of repelling any attack that may be made on it by the'Danes. Capt. MAURICE, of the navy, who distinguished himself in tl e defence. of the Di amond Rock in the West Indies, is appointed to the command of this post, which is likely to become one of great importance. A . great variety of false and absurd reports have been in circulation le,pecting the athirs of We have been favoured with a letter fro►n one of the Aides-de•Camp of the Officer Second in Com mand on that Island. ThisgounnutticatiOn - will re move all the distressing uncertainty on this interest ing subjemt, up to the date of the latest intelligence. It is as follows : . 4 ‘ CITADEL OF MESSINA, 'JUNE 22.—We are here in daily experiatiob of a visit from the French, and though I am confident we shall.give them a warm reception (if they do attempt a landing) still I think it is better to prepare for all events. " Indeed MURAT seems by his preparations to entertain ,a se rious intention of invading Sicily ; he aanally has drawn a very large force together in our neighbour hood, and has collected no less than from two to three, thousand vessels and boats of 'all descriptions near Scylla, and along the coast. It is tt ue that our flotilla and the Volage frigate have already sunk and destroyed fifty of them, of which eleven were gun boats ; but . 'the remainder are so well covered with batteries, that it is alMost impossible to come near them ; we must therefore wait quietly their coming out. The whole is a representation in miniature of the Boulogne flotilla, with the eitterence only, that in half an hour's time they can cross the Streights near the Faro, and that we cannot depend much upon the inhabitants of this country. However, as it is, Mbar will meet with more difiiculties than he appears to be aware of." The Earl of FALMOUTH is, it seems, shortly to re ceive the hand OViVIISS BANKS, though the report on this subjed has been.contradicted NAVAL NEWS. , PLYMOUTH,. AUG. ll.—Arrivc,d. the American schooner Resolution, of Boston, WILLIsTorz master, trout Saloe, Benecarlo, and Gibraltar, with a cargo of wine,. put into this port for orders, and is in a .leaky state, having received damage in..a gale of wii d; also arrived an American ship, from Rams gate, in ballast ; the brig John, DAVIS master, from Teneriffe, with a cargo' of wine, fur this port end Leith ; his Majesty's . ship Alfred, 0f.74 guns, Capt • WATSON, from .Martinique ; the Ecton, JAmcs,, from Wales ; the Peacock, of 18 guns, from the French coast, to•repair, having received damage in a gale of wind ; his Majesty's brigs Pickle and Gold finch from the "Westward; and the sloop Six Bro., thers, ROBERTS, from NeWry, with a cargo bf ba rilla, .bound to Guernsey. Sailed Sailed his Majesty's ships Defiance ,for Ports mouth; Minerva for the French coast ; Hawk, He licon, and Gleaner, 09 separate cruizes. PORTSMOUTU, AUG. 15.---,Came in yesterday the ship Speculation, PEACH, from Rio de Janeiro, hound to LondOn, laden with hides, cotton, and sugar, after a passage of eleiten weeks, ,She sailed under convoy of the Abundance store-ship,. in com-' ,pany with the Friendship atid Duke' of Portland merchantmen, but parted - from the two latter in. a gale of wind. His Alajesty's shivEndynion has detained and sent into, this port the ship Temperance, SOUTH - iCpME, from Baltimore hound to Tonniugen, laden with tobacco, cotton, coffee, &c. Carne into harbour this day the Osprea; Cos- . WELL,' from Lisbon bound to Boston, -laden with salt ; and the. Royalist, SMITH, from St. Thomas's bound to,this port, 'laden with viivalling stores. His Majesty's ship Nereus i,sues convoy instruc tions to the'trade bound to theßrazils. Sailed this day his Majesty's ship Hope and Ai°Le frigate for a crui,ze off Cherburgh. Came in this day his Majesty's ship Fq/la and the Mures ina-brig from Guernsey. DEAL, AUGUST 15. Arrived the Manche, GLADSTON, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the Friendship, Smiru, from Rio Janerio. Came down from the River a few ships, and .re main in the Downs with a large fleet. of outward bound; and his Majesty's ships Princess of Orange, Sun Doming-, Monarch, * Audacious, 'and Pompee men of war ; Owen Gleridcwer,, Theban, Nymph, and Clyde frigates; Echo, Osprey, and BerMuda sloops of war; Furious gun-brig,• and the Harmony Arrived the brig Rambler,• FILL, captured a few days ago by a French privateer, and recaptured by the Dexterous gun-brig. The following intelligenCe has been received frOm the Cape of Good,Hope, by a brig arrived at Ports mouth : , , The Bellone, 11lineri,e, and Victor, French men of war, had sailed from the Isle of France, on a cruize in the Indian Seas; .and the La Manche, Venus, and .Bntreprenante, were repairing their da mages. _ _ The brig touched at St.. Helena, from whence she sailed the 18th June, when the homeward-bound fleet from India had not arrived. We have received the subsequent letter,' giving some important information, both civil and mili tary _ GIBRALTAR, JULY 26.—The Deputies to the Cortes from one,,of the Eastern Provinces (we be-' licve Catalonia) have touched at this place for Ca diz. •We understand that General O'DONNELL in tends to be present'at the, meeting, although not in any official capacity. He will arrive, if he come at all, in a few days. Deputies from other provinces have reached the Isle of Leon, where the Cortes is to be assembled. " King .1054P1i •has reached the neighbourhOod of Valencia, with an army nearly jo,ooo' strong.— The siege of Tarragona is to be begun immediately, and .proSecuted with great vigour. The place -will make.a long and strong resistance. Letters from Madrid, dated. the beginning of the month, mention, that only a sufficient number of soldiers to preset %e the peace, remained there.— There had been - a commotion at Alcala de Ulnares, where some 20 Frenchthen fell. We know none of the particulars, .but We suppose that th e peop le were exasperated at their cruelties: ". The enemy before Cadiz is so weak, that the siege might easily be raised with the assistance of the force in the rear under LACY. " ibis is a fine opportunity for a struggle, while MAsNENA keeps inactive 100,000 men ; ,but the Sp:niards do nut know how to improve such fair _occasions. There is not a man iii Andalusia that is not asferocious as a cannibal if be catch..a Frenchman. It is a pity that about 17,000 of the enemy, at the utmost, should overawe a population of some millions in that province." • On Sunday last, the Rev.. C. F. FREY, a Jewish Rabbi, who has lately embraced the Christian f a ith, preached .three seunons at Newostle, in support ui the Society for the promo:ion of Christianity among the Jews, when above fifty pounds wa. cotleded. A match-at -skittles was lately played at Loft house, by tour b/inrtfiddlers ; two from Leeds, and two from Wakefield. The match afforded amusement to a considerable number Dt spectators; and was won by the Leeds men. BRIGHTON, AUG. 14. • O p t In thy 'letter of yesterday I gave you an gce ° , Op of the Review, in honour of th e ann i vers ary 0' 1 yal Highness' the P r i n ce of WALES'S 13irth; u , 3 i i i ; Ile Prince was , superbly habited as Colonel or 10t h Dragoons, and his beautiful grey charger parisonedin a suitable style of splendour. The Dukes were ail in military costume, the Doke o , CL - 3IBEALAND 'excepted, who was in plain clot h General NUGEN T wo re an un if orm o f wh i te and P, with broad gold lac e r ou nd his hat, which wasorns Men ted with a fe a t h er o f' g reen",Of no ordi nary 1113 g.1: 0 tulle. The Prince's b arouc h e a n d s i x was dr i ven to ground by the Earl ofßAttavmOßE : in' it we'q c , Marchioness of•T AvisTocx, L or d ERSKINE, 84C.::cli In the evening there was a concert, at Wh many Ladies were present. The folloWing paragraph appeared in'an'OPr lion Paper of this morning:— ".The Dey of Algiers having declare! war against Frarlc; will be the Magnanimous Dey with mu Ministerial io un' bes ists.-till it suits his pu rposes to d ecla r e ag a inst us, an d I" he will be !he most abnidoned of Pirates." Admittiog for a moment that this. statement be true, we do not see.any thing so very culpable iu , man's:being a little too partial to his own ceuntr).',. but what are We' tti say of i those Whose parliafi l l run in -a contrary dleCliOn, am! who.never well of a Sovereign,. except When he .happens t ° engaged ih 1105tiiitieS agains' their country ? The 'Opera . 'Of this Love.• has -become g° gr'e'at a favourite at the Lyceum,. that almost e' e : t i, song was last' night 'encored by -a ounterous ence: Jack the Giant hiller is every n i g ht rising into favour ,: and the little hero protnisc; to rival h i s great predecessnr, Torn Thumb: Mrs. DICKOitiS is at present performing in lihlbl tio where she-is an otsjc!et of much attracti o n among 1 ,01 musical ciicles._ lict.l:.poti_ and .13ELLAmy ate, did in that city, an d v; probably remain there °knit% of Covent Gard - tlTheatie. A rivalry, it . aeons, is a6tively carrying on ALirgite, and Mr. L E B AS , w h o has ' so. long ' e sided over the einpire of taste in ti-at place, 14 , opposed by- a Mr.- BARNA R D: The l at t e r hul a } ' -- . . state at liaidelion. ' AO The whimsical old man wh o l e f t a f u nd for t# dozen of penny loa ves , t o b e th rown ever y ( :;" i s ii teas from the Church at Roth er h a m, wa s ceib t '''• • desirous that the inhabit a nts; w h atever iii o rely f gious opinions might be, should have citillzu s comfort. It will. hardly be imagined th a t a cerv'd pu bic, Orator, notwithstanding his critical sitneon r , speeling the Law, continues to speak at every l'' e e d, ing of his Society for open discussion, as is pro les. ot though nobody would be h e ard on the Goveron le te side, and, from what we have heard, with uo a ba • mem. of his usual freedom. 1 , 11i 5 IVILTRAT has rendered himself so tidicu:oui g naval exploits, andcontemptibl e so h a ti b y i,j s v ati jo e falsehoods on the subj,-I,that it would not Ue v ". cgl i derful if ByONAPARTE were to disiniss him Jr • the situation of jduineynian King . Mr. VAUGHAN, a Gentleman formerly well itn ° ie in fiShionable and dramatic circles, died, a ccorc; •to report, a few days ag o . He has, however , , a (3 a ,/ tradicted this report, and p l ovecip that he 19 atit : merry; and that his Mpse is in good humour. - It is not true, as has been slated iii some of l' e , 1A 1 pers, that addresses have been prepared or Pr 4,, , - by Officers high in the aimy, praying that 1 0 JESTY would be graciously pleased to reVl ac r e h iel Duke of YORK in the office of Comthander in of he of his MAJESTY'S army. Although t rervo'a c il that Illustrious Person from that Office was att' ii i re , with -the .general regret Of .the army, which 11 i4 ' ceived so much benefit in all its br:friches fr'~ ni alt regulations and his superinrendance ; and alt regret for his Royal Highness's' removal no ( l e r3 implies a wish for his restoration, 'still the Ow",: o st of every regiment in his MAJESTY'S serviee their duty as British soldiers too well, to oPt'' l ,. ' ad' themselves into a 'deliberative body, and to of fer N' r vice to his MAJESTY upon the choice of, thei r — t hat [Wanders. The hficers of the army also kit°'`' t i o n Highness., under - Whose adninlistrori they have imbibed' t just principles o 4• I t : e h would of himself be the first to dicoUntenabo e 9 a proceeding. • • ni jor On Friday last as some workmen in the erT i t o g of Mrs. Frost,. of Harfnest, near Bury, were ra'4Bnef amp at that place, - one of the screws gore waY'oi the whole mill fell with a tremendous Crash n a ; 0 30 who was . in the second floor of the mill at th ° :,,l o si of the aceident,wa4'discoveredafterwards si ting aloe the mill post, in the midst of the ruins, twilit'''• ther man, who ,was, assist ing at the screwsun d r, r i o tO mill, had the presence of mind to throw himse" e tt l , a hole which had been dug for. tte purpose of v 1 , 41 ing some brick wok, and thus providentially e' ea i r ie s( with,only a few slight-bruises, although the g re " part of the ruins fell over him. --A porn tositt ria fits Bridbroke, who was ,standing-by looking on, b,' 1 1 1 0‘, 1 7 leg and thgb 4ruken by -some of the timber ' a against him. . . The opinion that the late fire, by which fir' • lett s printmg-oice4,a4 destroy,d, was Wil fli" itlig occasioned an adi:ertiSement for the di.:covelY incendiaries. 'A reward of 6001. is - afeled ir ) n et` Gazette for the aivrei,ension Of the perE,oll t).r sons who set , the house on fire, and his M'e pardon is promised to any one o f Ow Fe rsoo.lto cerned (except the 'person who . attuady Set b ye 4°, • the pre ises), 'upon . disCoVernw his that they may be cenvicled. • n ' o ge , On Wednesday seinnight the Bell publ i ffldgel at Steeple Mothten, in the County of Cal" . ;,.. a uty was broke open by tour men, who eriteredtlie, c 'e • ber where the landlord and his wile were.io ! - ! ,e c - 1;08 They. vent to tie bed-Side and dertianded th e - op° box belonging a society Which is held of the villains aopea'red to have 'a knowledge gpf , 'box,. he observed it used to be kept in 0 1 0 I); fhe roabeis went, t I.ere in the (fork, having l ' e ' ( ';10 , in the house, and found the box, which they brei/ open, aid took out alt they th,, ug ht COUP inC but fortunately they tniseu a' drawer wi'i c l l) tamed near 501. in bank-ooteS a nd gold. rr terwar,:s demanded the b l idi or d.„ watch- a,. d which he gave,thein, tl t c . t(1 •a(